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Francis Xavier Gartland (January 13 1805 – September 20 1854) was an Irish American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church. He was the first Bishop of Savannah Georgia serving between 1850 and his death in 1854.One of ten children Gartland was born in Dublin to James and Mary (née Conroy) Gartland. At an early age he came with his family to the United States where they settled in Philadelphia Pennsylvania. He studied the classics and theology at Mount St.
